If resources and relying on one
admin are the problem, why not move the media stuff to the
cloud?
The email forum is quite sufficient as it is. I suppose others
appreciate more of a multimedia experience, pics, videos, docs,
that sort of stuff. You can also add commentary to those
things.
As such, my experience has been that more and more people are
moving such sites to the likes of Facebook or Google+. You can
setup a public page. It doesn't have to be stranded in a
personal user's timeline. You can create it as its own site,
and assign multiple users as admins of the site. You can set
permissions on every object to be public, friends only, just me,
or custom. Obviously, anything but public refers to users of
that service (FB or G+) only. So, if you don't want to join the
service (FB or G+), you can interact with all of the public
portions. If any commentary gets out of control, any of the
admins can intervene and remove comments or edit content.
I think this would be a far superior alternative to any
individual's web server or a do it yourself option. It also
doesn't cost a thing. Facebook and Google+ were designed for
this kind of multimedia content and multiuser sharing. That's
where people go these days to put things on display and let
others come to experience and interact with it.
I used to be one of those guys who thought Facebook was a
privacy-stealing, good-for-nothing, public farce for a long
time, until I figured out all of my friends had been there for
years and sharing their lives with each other. Meanwhile, I had
been emailing some people now and then, while they were sharing
pictures, videos, funny things, life events, and a whole lot
more that I never saw.
I'll re-emphasize, as a browser, you don't have to join FB or G+
to view and interact with the publicly shared content. So, if
that's your worry, it really isn't one. Only the admins of the
page have to join, and I'm more than happy to help out as a user
of FB and G+.
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Sincerely, Jeremy Gagliardi
http://Jeremy.Gagliardi.com
mailto:Jeremy Gagliardi com
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On 12/12/2012 14:11, George Beckett wrote:
For some time people have been trying to contact
Don Barry who administers the Elec-Trak.com site. It does not
appears he has logged on in months and months. I myself have
tried several ways to contact him in the last couple months with
no luck. Does anyone here know how to contact him? The site is
unstable and is experiencing problems.
I'm afraid Mr. Barry might have
fallen on some bad luck along the way. I hate to say it but I
personally and several others who frequent that site now do
believe it's time to build a new home. A lot of odd things
have been happening lately and it seems we are getting some
odd visitors as well. We really don't know when the site will
expire and the software is dreadfully out of date. The new
software has a lot more features and I think in general it
would be nice to have some more functionality, protection, and
attention to it.
That being said I thought I would post a poll on that site to
see the general consensus of the members. Please share your
thoughts both on the poll and in posts if you are so inclined.
If the decision is to find a new home, I'll be glad to
organize a conference call with some other techies and help
with the site planning and design but we will need a new
administrator and I really think we should consider
moderators-we have been living too well for too long. At a
minimum, the start-up costs as well is something that should
be shared and at least a place to allow donations for on-going
expenses. I'm still trying to find time to finish the refresh
on my own site and doing the things to it I want to do on it
is more than enough to keep me busy. I will volunteer if folks
think it is a good idea to integrate the forum software and
picture gallerys into my site to make a more "one stop"
experience for members and visitors to find information on
ET's but I personally do not have time to administer it. One
of the biggest jobs will be preserving the threads so we can
keep all that history contained within. I have some ideas how
but would welcome others.
Please participate in the poll and if it is decided to move to
a new home I'll be glad to organize the first meeting of
volunteers.
Meantime, if anyone knows how to get a hold of Don, please
do and let me know as well. Thanks!!!!
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